Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Charades impossible

In my family 'Game Night' is serious business.  At every family function or gathering carefully strategize and select teams.  We love each other dearly but when game time starts every person on the opposing team is temporarily the enemy.  Sometimes we are lucky enough to have the same number of men and women in the house, when that happens we have our own Battle of the Sexes.  I'd like to say the women typically win, but honestly the wins are about 50 - 50.  Recently our Battle intensified, both teams engaged in major league trash talk.  At that point each team had already won an individual battle.  We determined the third game would be the decision maker, proving once and for all, which sex was superior.  The decision game was Charades.  In case you need a Charades refresher course - everyone discreetly writes a word on a small individual piece of paper, folds the paper so the word can not be seen, mix up the folded pieces of paper, the opponent must silently act out the word until either their team mates correctly guess or until time runs out, which ever happens first.  We set very strict rules, the most unforgiving rule - 'If you break any of the rules the other team automatically wins' NO EXCUSES!  We (the women) knew the men were going to write extremely difficult words for us.  As usual, we were 5 steps ahead of them, so we did the same and added our own little twist.  I am proud to announce, the women won! It was not easy, the men wrote some pretty difficult words for us.  The cry-baby men stand their ground insisting we cheated. We prefer to refer to our tactics as unmatched wit and strategy.
*Here are a few examples of the words written by the MEN:*
Grasshopper ~ they just wanted to laugh while watching us jump around, crouch down, and rub out legs together.
Synchronized swimmer ~ a SOLO synchronized swimmer is rather difficult
Baby being born ~ now that was just mean!
*Here are a few examples of the words written by the brilliant WOMEN:*
Confetti ~ show me confetti big trash talkers
810,654 ~ yeah, good luck with this one!
Ballerina ~ I know this is easy, but the men in our family are very masculine and would possibly prefer to take a beating opposed to act out Swan Lake for 2 minutes.
Better luck next time fellas! GIRLS RULE!

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